Pnin

Some people--and I am one of them--hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam.

getting something for nothing,

'I want a last piece of advice from you,' said Liza in what the French call a 'white' voice.

resonant flint glass emitted a sound full of muffled mellowness as it settled down to soak

to punctuate a clause or gather new momentum, by deep hawing pants: 'But don't you think--haw--that what he is trying to do--haw--practically in all his novels--haw--is--haw--to express the fantastic recurrence of certain situations?'

that bright note of genteel inquiry

he added with a hollow laugh

did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts.

softly rejoined Chateau.

They reached

Godunov Drawing-of-an-Animal Test a sensational mental age of seventeen, but on being given a Fairview Adult Test promptly sank to the mentality of a two-year-old. How much care, skill, inventiveness have gone to devise those marvellous techniques! What a shame that certain patients refuse to cooperate! There is, for instance, the Kent-Rosanoff Absolutely Free Association Test, in